{"id":89902,"date":"2023-02-08T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89902"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:17:58","slug":"89902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89902","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

FACT CHECK: Biden Claims Mass Shootings Tripled After \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban Ended<\/a><\/p>\n

CLAIM: During the State of the Union Address President Joe Biden claimed mass shootings tripled after the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban expired.<\/p>\n

VERDICT: Misleading\/Mostly False.<\/p>\n

Biden\u00a0said,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cIn the ten years the ban was law, mass shootings went down. After we let it expire, in a Republican administration, mass shootings tripled.\u201d<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Biden has made this claim before, in one form or another, following a high-profile shooting.<\/p>\n

He did so on May 24, 2022, following the Uvalde elementary school attack.\u00a0The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em><\/a> quoted him saying, \u201cWhen we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0also called Biden\u2019s claim into question:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden claimed that mass shooting deaths tripled after the law expired. He appears to be relying on a study of mass shooting data from 1981 to 2017, published in 2019 in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery by a team led by Charles DiMaggio, a professor of surgery at New York University\u2019s Langone Medical Center. That group found that an assault weapons ban would have prevented 314 out of 448, or 70 percent, of the mass shooting deaths during the years when the ban was not in effect. But the data used in that study has come under attack by some analysts.<\/p>\n

\u2026The new mass-shooting database shows that there were 31 mass shootings in the decade before the 1994 law, 31 in the 10 years the law was in force (Sept. 13, 1994 to Sept. 12, 2004) and 47 in the 10 years after it expired. As noted, some of that increase stems from population growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Breitbart News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the Department of Justice\u2019s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released a report in 2004, as the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban was coming to an end. The information in that study dovetails perfectly with the\u00a0Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0observation, inasmuch as the NIJ researchers could not credit the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban with any of the reductions in crime or shootings which were sporadically reported elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington Times<\/em>\u00a0quoted<\/a>\u00a0University of Pennsylvania professor Christopher Koper, author of the NIJ report, saying, \u201cWe cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation\u2019s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NIJ report continued, \u201cThe ban\u2019s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NIJ report put matters into perspective by pointing out that \u201cassault weapons\u201d were \u201crarely used in gun crimes even before the ban.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s claim about mass shootings tripling and the sunset of the ban being causal is misleading, because no reliable connection between the end of the ban and an increase in shootings has been made.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s claim is also mostly false because the information from sources like the NIJ explicitly indicates the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban cannot be credited with a drop in gun violence to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FACT CHECK: Biden Claims Mass Shootings Tripled After \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban Ended CLAIM: During the State of the Union Address President Joe Biden claimed mass shootings tripled after the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban expired. VERDICT: Misleading\/Mostly False. Biden\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cIn the ten years the ban was law, mass shootings went down. After we let it expire, in a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-mendacity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89903,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89902\/revisions\/89903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}